He will call upon Me, and I shall hear him; I shall free him and glorify him; I shall satisfy him with a long life, says the Lord. Psalm 91:15-16
From this passage, it appears that a single God is speaking. But our Most Holy God is a trinity. Three distinct persons but one God and these three persons form a unity. And each of the person in the trinity has special attributes, which are not lacking in the others, but which is more dominant in One, but also joins with the others. So, the most Holy Three complete one another forming the most perfect Perfection of our Triune Lord God. And that is why we can see the Father promises first: "He will call upon Me, and I shall hear him". Jesus teaches us to address our prayers to the Father when he told his apostles to pray to the Father. The Father promises that he answers our prayers. And that is a truthful promise towards his children. God is a perfect Father. He is not deaf to his children's call for help. He even answers sinners who are repentant, how much more to those who love him as faithful children. God the Father calls us to seek him always, to trust him, to abandon ourselves under his care and love. God the Father is infinitely holy and infinitely powerful. We are nothing, yet God the Father, in his humility, wanted us to rest in his arm, to be intimate with Him, to call upon him anytime and anywhere and He will answer us. "He will call upon Me, and I shall hear him" That is coming from God the Father; And let us consider the second line in this passage. Here, God the Son, Jesus, also makes his promises. “I shall free him and glorify him”. By his suffering and death, he obtains infinite merits to redeem us. For this reason, He is called the Christ, the Redeemer, the one who saves us. But he did not stop there. In Gethsemane, before going to this passion, he prayed to the Father “I pray also for those who will believe in me; that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.” In this prayer, Jesus asked the Father that the same glory the Father had given him, and he had transmitted to his disciples will also be given to those who believe in Him. All those who live according to Jesus’ teaching will therefore be glorified by Him. Glorification means our body and spirit participates in the divine life and ultimately dwells in the heavenly kingdom. Glorification is our goal and destination. In the last line, the Holy Spirit also speaks and makes his promise. “I shall satisfy him with long life.” What is this long life that the Holy Spirit promises? Do you think it is our early life? Did he promise that if we are faithful children we will live longer here on earth, say 60 years, 70 years, 80 years, 90 years? You can see that both good and bad, both sinners and holy people can live long lives. What is the use of having a long life when life is miserable? What the Holy Spirit promises here is eternal life, a life that has no end! A continuous joy and delight in the presence of the most triune God, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Let us praise the triune God for making this truthful promise to us, that he will answer our prayer, he will saves us and glorify us, and then gives us eternal life. Comments are closed.
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